Dear Tony, I’m currently reading through your book “The New Christians.” It is my first real introduction to the emerging movement from the perspective of an emergent. Wow! It’s great! A little of my background. I’m a Presbyterian raised lad, taught the ways of Calvin and co. My father is a Prezzy pastor a straight down the line conservative, though with a twist. I’ve completed an undergrad degree in philosophy and since changed to the Vineyard Church. I’ll get straight... Read more
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Last week, I spent two days at Princeton, speaking at the annual youth ministry conference. I’ve always got mixed feelings when I go back — a love of the people there, and an aversion to the bureaucracy and to New Jersey in general. In happy news, I recently found out that I won a dissertation grant from the Louisville Institute, so I’ll be hunkering down and finally writing that massive term paper next fall/winter/spring. Read more
First Base: Collin Hansen and I have begun a dialog on our two books and two movement (if you don’t know, Collin is part of the “young, restless, Reformed” crowd). Second Base: Scot has a guest blogger? Yes! RJS is blogging through Tim Keller’s book. Third Base: Jenell Paris inveighs on gender in emergent. Home Plate: The Democratic race thus far, in 7 minutes. Read more
“Dear Stephen, Please have my Daddy on your show!” Every week I receive a “publicity report” from Kelly Hughes, the best in the business. She’s been in contact with scores of journalists over the past three months, telling them about my book and trying to interest them in doing a story on it. Between the Democratic primaries and the Pope, there hasn’t been a lot of leeway in the media for “trends in religion” stories, which is how my... Read more
Kevin continues his thoughtful, chapter-by-chapter analysis of my book, and I’m very thankful. He’s onto Chapter 4, “The Theology, Stupid.” He concurs with me at some point, and dissents at others. Among his agreements are those having to do with epistemological humility. Among his dissents, that I seem reluctant to grant that the statement, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself,” the status of an objective proposition that is either true or not true, metaphysically speaking. Indeed, he... Read more
These photos will surely bother some of my friends in the HM. Sorry. Actually, there’s been an interesting discussion on that post. Some of the members of the HM have weighed in, as have some chaplains. In answer to some of the questions that have been raised: No, I do not get paid to be a chaplain (which, I suppose, allows me more freedom to stay true to my own commitments that I if I were paid. Yes, I have... Read more
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I’ll be live on Steve Brown, Etc., live today from noon-1pm EDT. You can listen live and call in if you want. Then it will be replayed on Sirius all weekend. [UPDATE: Here’s the show.] Read more
First Base: Congratulations, Scot and Lukas, on the Cubbies’ 10,000th win. Second Base: Good post from Calvin philosophy prof, Jamie Smith, on Stout (whom I like a lot). Third Base: Another good post from another Calvin philosophy prof, Kevin Corcoran, on emerging vs. emergent. (If you don’t subscribe to Kevin’s blog, you should.) Home Plate: Norman Jeune has begun a multi-part post on Peter Rollins’s new book, The Fidelity of Betrayal, to which Pete will be responding directly. Read more
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